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Flypaper

Art can be a lot of different things, it can for example be a picture of a man under a tree, it could be a painting or an installation.
There is a lot of possibilities when we talk about art you can draw a line on a piece of paper and call it art. But that is not enough if you want to have people’s attention and have a piece of fame. You have to come up with something mysterious, weird, and completely different if you want to break through. And as an example you can take picture number 3, an artist has done something extreme so his art will be noticed. Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit no. 47, is the title and it is his excrements in a can and is exhibited as art. Here are a lot of questions to why he did that, what makes it famous, and perhaps some would wonder if there really was excrements in it or not, but the reason why he really could do it was because he was already famous and people wanted everything if it was from him. Some of the artists are willing to do almost everything to break through. And some people do the most extreme things you can ever imagine. And that is exactly what this short story is about.

This short story is written by Simon Armitage. The main character is a very mysterious man and we don’t get a name from the text because he is anonymous through the whole story. He is a very special artist, he make his art in public places in England where a lot of people can see it, he shows his art by making imprints in wet cement and always leaves a fingerprint to make sure the people know it is his work. The contrast between him and some of the famous artists is that he doesn’t do this because he wants to be famous or for the money, because he wants to remain anonymous. But like other famous artists he likes to make art, which leaves people in suspense and with a lot of unanswered questions, and that is enough to him. And I think that the excitement of being caught and wondering people, is all he need and I also think that is what drives him. He represents something Christian maybe even Jesus because he wears a crown made of barbed wire so it look like thorns, and almost similar to the one Jesus wore under the crucifixion and when he commits suicide he lies in the position as Jesus died in. I think he like Jesus wanted to spread a message to the people and did not do it because he wanted to be famous. He uses his own body to show his art, and so does the woman in picture number one, they are a lot a like, also because she should present Jasus on the cross. He wanted to say to the people that it is not fair that it is the critics who decide what art is, that I s why he “made” his art in public places so that people can see for them selves and decide on their own what they think about it.

In this short story we also meet council leader Perry and in contrast to our mysterious artist he is out for the money and prestige. And he will achieve that if he catch the artist and reveal the artist identity. Perry is a very tough man and he wont let anything ruin his chances to earn some more money or get more prestige.
They plan a trap so they can get the artist and they provoke the artist to make an imprint in the wet cement. And of course the artist shows up to prepare a new piece of art. Perry and his assistant Rossiter hide and wait for a the exact right moment to get the artist. But they fail because the artist commit suicide, which also tell us how far the artist would go for art and the answer is that he would risk his life which he also did and that shows how much this secrecy means to him and how much it means that he will be a mystery forever. And people always will remember him because of what he did. But is it art? What is art? In text number 2 Norman Mailer writes a lot about art and end it with the sentence:
“The good is the enemy of the great, and the good taste is certainly the most entrenched foe of literature” (p. 9, l. 50-51).
And Norman Mailer says that the art the anonymous artist in the story “does” is exactly what the world notice and want to see.
“Arts serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible when we now know more than we knew before, when we feel we have – by some manner of leap – encountered the truth.” (p. 8-9, l. 32-34)
They also want artist like him in the short story because modern people has to frightened and it is very hard to do now a days and that is why you have to do extreme things like the anonymous artist to be noticed.

The title Flypaper can in my opinion mean two things. Maybe the artist is the flypaper? He attracts peoples attention by his mysterious imprints? But also the wet cement could be the flypaper, it draws him like flypaper draws flies? And flypaper is sort of a name on his last piece of art, he dies in the wet cement and now one can get him away from it.